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...Author. Novelist Ward was born in Fairmount, Ind., has been married 18 years. The Snake Pit is her fourth novel. She has finished the first draft of a fifth novel and the outline of a sixth. Says her husband: "Mary Jane isn't happy unless she has a novel under...
After ephedrine, what? Benzedrine, said the Maryland Racing Commission. Evidence: the saliva test on Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark's Cosey, winner of the Fairmount Steeplechase Handicap at Pimlico. Result: Mrs. Clark's stable, top steeplechase money-winner of the year, suspended pending hearing-the third ban for doping horses handed out by the Maryland Commission this season...
Valets at the Fairmount Hotel on Nob Hill groaned when they discovered that the flowing white robes of the Saudi Arabians had to be pressed daily. The Arabians steadfastly refused to sign autographs (as did the Russians), obeyed Moslem laws and drank only fruit punch and orange juice in the bars. Bellboys at the Mark Hopkins complained that the British and the Chinese were the poorest tippers, averaging a dime (the British are accustomed to tipping once, on arrival or departure...
...cobblestone's throw of Independence Hall, he was officially tossed aside all over again. A Philadelphia park commission decided that Tom Paine smelled like an atheist, was not 100% acceptable to all Philadelphians. So it refused to allow his admirers to set a statue of him in Fairmount Park. Tom Paine's pamphlets included The Age of Reason ("The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately"); The Crisis ("These are the times that try men's souls...
...Palm Sunday Cleveland's Pastor Frank H. Ferris and his well-to-do Fairmount Presbyterian congregation celebrated their first services in a brand-new church. Most magnificent of all the new church's handsome trappings was a set of 37 stained-glass windows picturing the life of Christ. Few U.S. churches could boast their equals, and none precisely like them had ever been seen in a U.S. church before. For the world's makers of stained-glass windows they reopened an artistic question that most purists had settled a generation...